Becky and I went to see the film The Theory of Everything at the Landmark Cinemas in Englewood, CO.  The Fandango website at The Theory of Everything describes the movie as follows…

“James Marsh’s biopic of the celebrated scientist Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything, stars Eddie Redmayne as the famous figure. Enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge, Hawking establishes himself as one of the leading minds of his generation, and begins to win the heart of Jane (Felicity Jones). After one of his earliest breakthroughs, Hawking is diagnosed with ALS, and he becomes less and less able to control his own body. With the loyal Jane at his side, he continues his work. However, as the years progress, Jane starts to feel more like a nurse than a wife, and Hawking begins to have feelings for a woman who is hired to care for him. The Theory of Everything screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi…”

The Review: This film has been a big hit with the critics and at the box office as the amazing story of the life of Stephen Hawking.  We had great expectations for this film not knowing anything about his life, but we did not find it as good as everyone else did.  For starters the great Stephen Hawking was not just an atheist, but someone who continually confronted people who believed in God as though they were stupid and he was smarter than God.

Which is rather ironic given his condition since in all of his brilliance he didn’t have the power to heal himself.   I worship someone who rose from the dead, so if he could have fixed himself I would have been more impressed.  Some may find that statement a bit harsh or over-the-top, but I believe that only a fool would say in his heart that there is not a God.  Let alone someone in a wheelchair who cannot even speak without the help of a machine, who would take the time to challenge God and anyone who believes in God. I don’t have time for people like that, even if our modern society wants to celebrate this kind of brilliance.

Which was also rather interesting to me because he spent most of his time proving his “theories” and then turned around and said he had to disprove his theories as being wrong.  That is what this movie is about The THEORY of Everything and my theory at the end of this movie was that this guy sucked at relationships and this movie was a complete waste of our time.

His wife turned out to be a saint and he turned out to be a jerk.  She could have pulled the plug on him and let him die before he ever reached his fame and fortune and then he turned around and leaves her for some other woman who was fascinated by the limelight that the world gave him.  Even if he was a brilliant person, with a cruel disease and stuck in a wheelchair, he seemed to me to be incredibly stupid when it came to how he treated people who loved him.  I was not a fan of this guy and found his life story read like a Greek tragedy.

It was bad enough to watch him go through his challenges with his debilitating disease, which was terrible and we felt very sorry for him and his struggles.  However to then throw his relationship with his wife and others into the mix was just not an enjoyable film.  Of course, he had to talk about how he was smarter than God throughout the film too, which was even more annoying.

What was great about this film was the acting and the actor who played Stephen Hawking needs to earn an award because he was amazing.  He really played the role well, even if we were not a fan of the person he was portraying.  Stephen turned out to be an Evolutionist, which was not a surprise.  Scientists like Hawking choose to ignore certain laws and truths when it is convenient, including the fact that the Theory of Evolution is mathematically impossible.  This is a good article on that topic if you’re interested in seeing why Evolution is a mathematical myth – http://www.icr.org/article/493/

Anyway, we would skip this movie or wait to watch the rental if you’re interested.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the film Interstellar last week at the Regal Cinemas in Lone Tree, CO.  The Fandango website at Interstellar describes the movie as follows…

“A crew of astronauts embark on a mission to find a world where humanity can trive in a future where Earth can no longer sustain human life. The story opens on Earth in the distant future, as Mother Nature is waging war on humanity. Famine is widespread, and all of mankind’s resources are now dedicated to farming in a desperate fight for survival. A former NASA pilot and engineer named Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) has become a homesteader in order to support his teenage son Tom (Timothee Chalamet) and 10-year-old daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy). Unfortunately, even that begins to look like a futile endeavor after a sandstorm ravages their close-knit community…”

The Review: I thought this movie was going to be really terrible.  I wasn’t looking forward to seeing it and neither was Becky with a downer story about how mankind has destroyed the Earth and we would need to find another planet to survive as a species.  In some respects it was really bad because of that, but it was much better than we both expected.  It has some cool scenes from outer space and shows how mankind desires to “boldly go where no man has gone before.”

The story deals with how mankind has destroyed the planet and in order to save our species (that always crack me up because we are not animals like the Evolutionist wants us to be), but nevertheless we need to save mankind in this film by going to a new planet.  There are also some aspects of the film that show the evil of man’s nature, including greed and self absorption.  That makes the movie interesting and I really liked the way they used Time as an important element in this film.  In fact, that’s one of my favorite parts of the movie because very seldom do astrophysicists discuss the reality that when they look into the void of space they are looking into the past.

They also deal with Einstein’s theory of relativity in action with the main character when they land on a planet based on the rotation of the planet.  That was pretty cool.  I liked the movie more than Becky did.  The acting was good and the characters were interesting.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the film Before I Go to Sleep last night at the Regal Cinemas in Lone Tree, CO with our son Corban.  The Fandango website at Before I Go to Sleep describes the movie as follows…

“A woman (Nicole Kidman) awakes each day with no memory as a result of a traumatic accident…”

The Review: This movie stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth and it’s about a woman who has an accident and she is an amnesia patient.  Each day she wakes up and cannot remember anything from the day before.  She is 40 years old and she believes she is 20 years old and her husband has been taking care of her since her traumatic brain injury, but she suspects something is wrong about the entire situation.

This movie is really clever.  It’s kind of low budget with some good actors and the story is really wild.  It moves really slow until about three quarters of the way through the film and then it gets very exciting as you get one twist after another.  It will keep you guessing about what’s going on and it’s a very good suspense thriller.  We all liked it and found it entertaining and a bit spooky at times as you start to find out more about her accident.

We all thought it was a movie not to miss because it was done so well.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

Corban – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the film Nightcrawler last night at the AMC theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria.  The Fandango website at Nightcrawler describes the movie as follows…

“An ambitious young crime journalist probes the dark underbelly of L.A. in this cynical urban drama that marks the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy (Real Steal, The Bourne Legacy). Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhall) is a petty thief in search of a payday when he stumbles onto the scene of a grisly car accident, and witnesses seasoned “Nightcrawler” Joe Loder (Bill Paxton) gathering video footage for a local news broadcast. Convinced that this is a career he could excel at, Lou promptly purchases a police scanner and a cheap video camera, and hits the streets. In short order Lou has hired an assistant (Riz Ahmed) to help him navigate the city streets, and started selling footage to local TV producer Nina (Rene Russo), one of Joe’s regular buyers. As fast learner with an eye for detail, Lou isn’t above manipulating a crime scene in order to get a picture that tells a story…”

The Review:  Let me start by saying that Mark fell asleep within the first ten minutes of the start of this movie and thought it was boring.  Maria fell asleep a couple of times and so did Becky, so that pretty much left me to actually watch the film from start until finish.  And this movie is a trip.  Jake Gyllenhaal is amazing in this movie.  His character is psychotic and even says at one time in the film how he doesn’t like people.  The way that his character goes from being out of a job to controlling people in various situations is wild and extremely well done.  You will believe that this character could really pull off what he does in this movie and I think that’s what makes it such a good film.

I don’t think this movie will be for everyone.  Obviously, the three people I was with didn’t really get into it and thought it was “boring”, but I found it very entertaining and fascinating.  The acting was great and the situations and characters in the movie with a glimpse into network news channels was excellent.  Be forewarned though that the content is disturbing and graphic and the main character is close to being a serial killer as you can get without actually directly wielding the weapon.

I think it was worth the trip to the movies, but Becky definitely disagreed.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the film Fury at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The MSN Movie website at Fury describes the movie as follows…

“In this thundering war thriller set during the Allies’ final push into Europe in April 1945, a battle-weary Army sergeant leads a Sherman tank and its crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines…”

The Review: Fury is just incredible movie making.  The acting is fantastic, the story is as real as you can get and it is a reminder of the price that men and women paid fighting the Germans in World War II to defeat the Nazi regime.  It is brutal and does not candy coat death, destruction and war like so many films tend to do.  There are parts of this movie that are very disturbing and that will make you think, including an execution of a man pleading for his life.  The movie illustrates how war makes people hard and able to commit murder given the circumstances, even if they don’t think that they will.

Fury reminded me of Saving Private Ryan in that it is one of those movies that you have to see, but I don’t have any interest in seeing it again.  It was very well done, even if you’re not a fan or war movies you should like this film and we definitely rated it a Don’t Miss It.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see a sneak preview of the film John Wick at the AMC theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The Fandango website at John Wick describes the movie as follows…

“Retired hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) hits the streets of NYC in search of the gangsters who robbed him of his reason for living in this Lionsgate thriller featuring Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe….”

The Review:  If you go see this movie, just think of the Matrix because that’s how much killing takes place in this film with Keanu Reeves as John Wick.  It is extremely far fetched with John Wick having almost super hero skills, but it’s a pretty fun action flick overall.  I liked this movie much more than Becky did, since it’s a “guy flick”, but the character is so much like Neo in the Matrix that it’s a bit too much at times.  The story isn’t nearly as good as The Matrix either.  It’s one of those movies that you think you’ve seen before with movies like Jack Reacher and others, which is one of the problems with the film.

It’s not a terrible movie, but it’s definitely a “me too” movie that has been done so many times before with the “hit man” or the special operative movie like Taken and Take 2 and soon to be Taken 3.  I think that’s the biggest flaw of the film is that it’s not unique enough compared to other films that we’ve all seen before.  I did like some of the cinematography and the way the takes people out is pretty cool since he doesn’t really think about it and always takes a kill shot.  That was different from other films like this where the character is almost being “nice”.  The fight scene at the end was lame considering how many people he takes out earlier on in the film.

I would have to say that this is a good rental to wait until it shows up on Netflix or at the rental box.  I’m sure it will become a cult classic like The Matrix once it goes into the video world.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the film Dracula Untold last night at the AMC theaters in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Dracula Untold describes the movie as follows…

“Director Gary Shore revamps the mythos surrounding Vlad the Impaler in Dracula Year Zero, a Universal Pictures release from a script by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. The horror tale is set to take place in Romania during the Turkish invasion as Vlad (Luke Evans) goes to the greatest of lengths to fight for his homeland — even if it means selling his soul and becoming forever doomed as a creature of the night…”

The Review:  I was looking forward to seeing this movie since I have always enjoyed Bran Stoker’s Dracula and thought it would be cool to see another movie about Dracula.  The special effects were done well, but the story was kind of lame.  It started out very good and was a pretty exciting film, but by the end of the film it got pretty goofy with vampires all over the place.

I don’t think this movie will be for everyone.  It starts out good, but it’s more of a war movie than a vampire horror film.  It has some elements that are more like the movie Van Helsing with it’s “campy” approach to the vampires.  It wasn’t terrible, but it was fairly entertaining.  Once again, there is a final battle scene where Dracula goes from being a super hero that is embodied by evil to suddenly experiencing his kryptonite and struggles to beat a mere mortal.  That was a bit lame.  Becky didn’t like this movie much at all and thought it was a don’t bother.  I think she fell asleep during it.

I think it will make a pretty good rental.

John – ** Rental
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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Becky and I went to see the film The Judge on Friday at the AMC theaters in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at The Judge describes the movie as follows…

“Robert Downey Jr. plays an urban lawyer who heads back to his rural home when his father, a judge, is implicated as a murder suspect in this comedy-drama from Warner Bros. Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Billy Bob Thornton head up the rest of the starring cast…”

The Review: The Judge is a drama about a powerful big city lawyer and his Dad who is a local Judge in a small town.  They have had relationship challenges most of their lives and the son finds himself in a position having to defend his father from going to jail.  It creates some interesting conflicts between the family and the characters.

The movie is very well done and Robert Duvall was amazing, along with the other actors.  Many people who see this film will be able to relate to the characters in this film and how one or two conflicts in the past and un-forgiveness can have lasting impacts on family dynamics.  There are also some health issues that come into play for the main character that is pretty sad and rather graphic.

We both liked this movie and thought it was worth seeing on the big screen.  Becky thought it was a film that you don’t want to miss.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the film Gone Girl on Friday at the AMC theaters in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Gone Girl describes the movie as follows…

“David Fincher returns to the director’s chair for this 20th Century Fox thriller based on Gillian Flynn‘s bestseller (and adapted for the screen by the author) about a husband who becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance after she vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary…”

The Review:  Our friend Devon that we run with read this book and she refused to tell us anything about it, but we definitely wanted to go and see it.  I’m not a big Ben Affleck fan at all, so when I found out he was in it, I wasn’t to thrilled about seeing it and I had low expectations.  It turned out that I was completely wrong about this movie.

This movie is done extremely well and is very disturbing.  There is a part in the film that is just over the top graphic and shocking that we did not expect and it was really terrible.  Probably the worst part of the film for us, but the rest of the film and the acting was superb.  Especially Rosamund Pike who plays “Amazing Amy” so well in this film and should win an Oscar for her performance in this movie.  It’s really that good.  If you’re wondering what this movie is about, just think Basic Instinct with Sharon Stone and that’s what this film is like.  It’s that crazy!

We had to go and watch Basic Instinct again after seeing this movie just to see how much it was like that movie.  It is a very original movie and extremely well done, but disturbing for sure.  I still don’t like Ben Affleck, but does a good job in this movie.

John – *** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the film Maze Runner on Friday at the AMC theaters in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at The Maze Runner describes the movie as follows…

“Based on the bestselling novel by James Dashner, this adventure thriller for young adults follows a young boy named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) who finds himself trapped within a giant, deadly maze with a group of other kids. While he has no memories of his life prior to being in the maze, he is plagued by nightmares about a shadowy organization known only as W.C.K.D., and hopes that these fragments of dreams will help him discover the secrets of his past and a way to escape..”

The Review:  This was a strange science fiction film about a young man who wakes up in a maze and has to get out of the maze with a group of other people who are being picked off by monsters.  The story is pretty good and the acting is good, but the ending kind of bothered all of us, since it could have been much better.  There is quite a bit of senseless killing in the movie, but for the content you would expect that I guess.  It has a little bit of a horror, suspense element to it and it is hard to figure out what is going on for quite a while because of the way the film is handled.  You’re not really sure why they are in this maze and there are flashbacks by the hero of the film to before he gets into the maze.

This wasn’t a great movie, but it wasn’t terrible.  I think it was worth the price of admission and Becky thought it was more of a rental.  I think I liked it because of the science fiction element to it.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – ** Rental

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